Supporting Mobile Learning with Location-Aware Printing Service

Abstract

Learning and studying are very often connected with reading printed materials. In this paper we describe some implementation issues of a common task – printing a document, when applied in a mobile environment. In a non-mobile context this task is simple and is usually taken for granted, but the introduction of a palmtop/laptop equipped with a wireless-LAN card makes the task less trivial. To fulfil the requirements placed by the mobility a system should consider some location-time-dependant data.